ManyRoads reviewed Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
2023 Update
5 stars
As he approaches age 10... this remains a beloved tome of poetry.
Hardcover, 166 pages
Published Dec. 3, 1996 by HarperCollins.
If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer... Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist. Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound. This special edition has 12 extra poems the did not appear in the original collection. - Jacket flap.
As he approaches age 10... this remains a beloved tome of poetry.
My 7+ year old grandson found a few poems perplexing, a few interesting and many 'belly laughing' hilarious. Amazingly, he even managed to fall asleep after we read 30+ pages each night for the past few days at bedtime.
As he approaches age 10... this remains a beloved tome of poetry.
My hair grows to my toes
I never wear no clothes
I wrap my hair around my bare and down the street I goes